"Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty."

-- George Eliot

#Beauty Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.”
“For official purposes, these children do not exist.”

Source : "Lone Wolf". Book by Robert Muchamore, August 1, 2014.
“A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.”
“Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.
“Man's most serious activity is play.”
“Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.”
“I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.”

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